donut
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 11:25 AM |
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Decent alternatives to iTunes?
Fed up with iTunes sound popping etc (fine in windows media player!) so was wondering what other on line store are good for downloads. I don't
want the free sites as they are a pain but proper companies like HMV or Virgin that charge 79p per song...sort of thing. Who has the biggest
catalogue?
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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chockymonster
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 11:50 AM |
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allofmp3.com 
supposedly legal, based in russia, paid for by paypal and has a huge catalogue.
You pay per bandwidth.
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 11:55 AM |
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not what you're after but I use yamipod, its freeware, it has no store but is great as a standalone ipod client. you don't have to
install any software it runs from an exe, so it can't take over your machine and fup it up. you can drag and drop music into your ipod and the
id3 tag manager is great.
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Gav
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 12:04 PM |
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Id second allofmp3.com, use it regularly, love the fact you can chose the encoding you want.
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Hammerhead
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 12:15 PM |
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napster went legit, think its funded by the record companies. Don't know what its like. In fact I went out and bought CD's the other day.
First time in years. They have come down to about £7 in supermarkets.
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donut
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 12:17 PM |
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Had a look at allofmp3.com and it does look good....and cheap!!!!!!!!!
Only thing is when i seached for artists it came up with "Error CheckCache" message!?!?!?! not sure if it's me or them?
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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DIY Si
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 12:38 PM |
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My wife used napster before she bought an ipod, it was brilliant, same price as itunes, they had an amazing back catelogue of stuff. She would still
use napster if she hadn't bought herself an apple G5, which won't work with the napster software. 
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My new blog: http://spritecave.blogspot.co.uk/
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chockymonster
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 12:40 PM |
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It's firefox, works fine in internet exploder.
Damn Microsoft and their broken interpretation of standards and lazy developers.
Mind you, I can't be @rsed to make my site work in IE7, if M$ can't get CSS working then people can go use a proper browser
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donut
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 12:44 PM |
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I don't have firefox!!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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DIY Si
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 12:47 PM |
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Then napster will work for you just fine! (It is a brill site, if your a pc user).
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My new blog: http://spritecave.blogspot.co.uk/
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donut
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| posted on 13/10/06 at 04:02 PM |
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Trouble with some of these sites is that you need to pay a monthly fee which i don't. at least Napster is 79p a track.
[Edited on 13/10/06 by donut]
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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